MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
learning technology are empowering
humans
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Instructors want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
demand for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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